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Soft is fast : Simone Forti in the 1960s and after
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- Summary
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An innovative analysis of Simone Forti's interdisciplinary art, viewing her influential 1960s ""dance constructions"" as negotiating the aesthetic strategies of John Cage and Anna Halprin.
Details
- Creator
- Meredith Morse
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, [2015]
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (269 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9780262334679, 0262334674, 9780262334662, 0262334666, 0262033976
- OCLC
- ocn939519723
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part 1 The 1960S; 1 The Natural and the Neutral: Simone Forti, Ann Halprin, and Margaret H'Doubler; 2 Simone Forti in New York: John Cage and Robert Whitman; 3 Scale: Simone Forti's Text Works in An Anthology of Chance Operations; 4 The Dance Constructions, La Monte Young's Performance, and Slow Time; 5 The Problem of the Personal; Part 2 The 1960s and After; 6 Huddle: Inhabitation and Sociality; 7 Disoriented Perception: Simone Forti in the 1970s and Process Art; 8 News Animations and Improvisations: Movement-Feeling-Form
- Epilogue: Performing Then as NowNotes; Index